The Art Song in East Asia and Australia, 1900 to 1950

Alison McQueen Tokita, Joys H. Y. Cheung

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English

Routledge
07 October 2024

Western "classical" music; Non-Western music: traditional & "classical"

Series: SOAS Studies in Music

This book explores art song as an emblem of musical modernity in early twentieth-century East Asia and Australia. It appraises the lyrical power of art song – a solo song set to a poem in the local language in Western art music style accompanied by piano – as a vehicle for creating a localized musical identity, while embracing cosmopolitan visions. The study of art song reveals both the tension and the intimacy between cosmopolitanism and local politics and culture. In 20 essays, the book includes overviews of art song development written by scholars from each of the five locales of Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, and Australia, reflecting perspectives of both established narratives and uncharted historiography. The Art Song in East Asia and Australia, 1900 to 1950 proposes listening to the songs of our neighbours across cultural and linguistic boundaries. Recognizing the colonial constraints experienced by art song composers, it hears trans-colonial expressions addressing musical modernity, both in earlier times and now. Readers of this volume will include musicologists, ethnomusicologists, singers, musicians, and researchers concerned with modernity in the fields of poetry and history, working within local, regional, and transnational contexts.

Edited by: Alison McQueen Tokita, Joys H. Y. Cheung
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 449g
ISBN: 9781032321660
ISBN 10: 1032321660
Series: SOAS Studies in Music
Pages: 20
Publication Date: 07 October 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Alison McQueen Tokita is Guest Professor, Kyoto City University of Arts, and Adjunct Researcher, Monash University, Australia. Joys H. Y. Cheung is Assistant Professor at the Graduate Institute of Ethnomusicology, National Taiwan Normal University, Republic of China.

Reviews for The Art Song in East Asia and Australia, 1900 to 1950

""This book presents a fascinating overview of the genre’s introduction to East Asia and Australia. In 20 chapters, readers encounter various cultural and artistic struggles to locally adapt a more or less alien musical style in terms of form, content, and culture. Almost every chapter treats this musical challenge in terms of modernity and identity. Commendably, the authors seek to avoid the narrative of East–West division, focusing instead on the interconnectedness of the art song globally... The book will interest specialists and students of musical styles and their intercultural transmission. It will be even more intriguing for those interested in questions of identity, (post-)colonialism, and modernity in East Asia and Australia."" Anne Rodier, Asian Studies Review